I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate.

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.